I've just tried to install kFreeBSD, to give it a try. I have a
dual-boot Windows/Linux-Debian system, and was using a spare partition.
I was using the FreeBSD 9 mini.iso image.
The installation worked fine, but I don't actually have a running
system. Issues include:
- I had some trouble finding a mirror --- do not all of them carry kFreeBSD?
- some of the d-i screens were wrong; the main one of interest being the
prompt for the device to install grub onto, which talked about /dev/sda1
etc instead of /dev/ada0s1 etc; I'm not a FreeBSD user, so this confused
me until I remembered.
- installing grub failed. I want grub in the FreeBSD partition, not the
MBR, so this may not be a commonly tested path. It looks like it's
unable to find a mapping between the BSD device name for the partition
(/dev/ada0s6) and the BIOS drive.
- formatting the partition as UFS didn't remove the old jfs signature,
which caused some confusion later when the partition was misdetected. I
realise this isn't d-i's fault, but it was still awkward.
I don't know what's going on with grub, as I stopped being able to
understand it at about the time grub 0.9 came out. In the process of
trying to fix it, I tried booting Linux Debian and running grub-update.
It failed to find the kFreeBSD installation. This is grub-pc:amd64
1.99-22.1.
Are these issues known about? Would you like formal bug reports?
I'm going to try the stable installation image now, but it's entirely
possible I'll be back asking for help...
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